Word: wowing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...joke dies, he waits a second, and then yawns a fine Ed Sullivan "Ho-o-okay. . ." A sudden thought-either his or a guest's-will launch him into an imitation of Jona than Winters imitating an old granny. He can spread his eyes wide open into a wow. Semi-emancipated puritan that he is (he was reared a Methodist), he can, when a guest goes off-color, freeze his face into a blank that shows nothing but eyes and innocence. He is performer and critic, rapping out a whole percussion section of effects to suit a funny line...
...many posters in the Spring Mobilization peace march headquarters read, "The Original Great Springout--A Megalopolitan Peacepipe Pow-Wow--Saturday, April 15, 1967--Many Smokes and Spring Seasonings--Lites, Kites, Pipes, Rites, Sights, Beads, Reeds, Bells, Shells, Smells, Cells, Kids. Aimals. Flowers, Feathers, Corn, Bananas, Peppers, Seeds, Nuts, Forbidden Fruits, Instruments...
...Marijuana does not produce physical addiction, but it does produce significant dependence, to a serious degree." Wow. Even if the prose weren't so bad this would be an objectionable sentence. For one thing, it's untrue. Marijuana no more "produces" dependence that driving fast does; people may get hung up or stung on either, but the chemical or car can hardly be blamed, certainly not in the sense that heroin or alcohol can. Marijuana simply does not produce that kind of dependency...
Arthur Friedman as Harry, the "wow" at parties, and Tom Jones as the wronged husband James are quick, polished, and properly above the sense and nonsense of what they are saying. At the very end of the play, however, Jones sinks into a too perceptive, responsive state. Both have passable accents; neither appears to strain to preserve it. I don't think Arthur Friedman looks like the forty-year-old man called for in the strip. This distorts his relation to Bill, a man in his twenties who rose from the lower classes by Harry's grace. The last member...
STEPHANIE: They're all so . . . uh, visceral. Hey, WOW! Try this one for size . . . "Ellen Niedermeir...